Immunology and Microbiology Research Strength
Explore universities with the strongest current Immunology and Microbiology topic signals in the ITS Research Intelligence database, alongside institution-level research performance and growth.
Research landscape
Immunology and Microbiology currently has 35 index-ready universities contributing strong topic signals in the local database. Their aggregated topic-signal volume is 167,380 works. The average overall ITS Research Performance Score across this set is 0.0, while average five-year publication growth is -9.3%.
The ranking below combines the strength of an institution’s field signal with its overall research-performance score and recent growth. It should be read as a research-intelligence indicator, not as a complete subject ranking of teaching, reputation, facilities or student outcomes.
Leading universities in Immunology and Microbiology
| Rank | University | Country | Field score | Field signal | Overall works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Harvard University | United States | 66.0 | 25,379 | 156,655 | -24.4% |
| #2 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 61.5 | 11,897 | 78,911 | -16.2% |
| #3 | University of California, San Francisco | United States | 61.3 | 11,770 | 72,937 | -18.8% |
| #4 | Emory University | United States | 61.1 | 10,640 | 63,631 | -9.4% |
| #5 | University of Pittsburgh | United States | 60.7 | 5,498 | 92,221 | 86.4% |
| #6 | University of Alabama at Birmingham | United States | 59.7 | 8,420 | 38,277 | -6.6% |
| #7 | Stanford University | United States | 59.7 | 8,674 | 124,451 | -11.6% |
| #8 | Karolinska Institutet | Sweden | 58.7 | 7,545 | 62,423 | -13.9% |
| #9 | University of Washington | United States | 58.7 | 7,821 | 108,488 | -20.0% |
| #10 | Johns Hopkins University | United States | 56.8 | 5,808 | 124,053 | -18.0% |
| #11 | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 56.2 | 5,183 | 102,835 | -15.1% |
| #12 | Washington University in St. Louis | United States | 56.1 | 5,076 | 66,456 | -15.2% |
| #13 | Yale University | United States | 55.5 | 3,290 | 116,263 | 40.1% |
| #14 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States | 55.2 | 3,733 | 100,281 | 11.4% |
| #15 | University of Colorado Denver | United States | 54.6 | 4,136 | 35,368 | -19.2% |
| #16 | University of Lausanne | Switzerland | 53.8 | 3,471 | 35,548 | -11.9% |
| #17 | University of California San Diego | United States | 53.3 | 3,159 | 89,480 | -8.9% |
| #18 | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | United Kingdom | 52.8 | 3,466 | 31,301 | -36.6% |
| #19 | Cornell University | United States | 52.7 | 2,895 | 106,688 | -9.7% |
| #20 | University of Maryland, Baltimore | United States | 52.0 | 2,760 | 28,479 | -19.2% |
| #21 | Case Western Reserve University | United States | 51.9 | 2,715 | 32,459 | -18.8% |
| #22 | University of Minnesota | United States | 51.5 | 2,594 | 55,139 | -22.9% |
| #23 | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | United States | 51.2 | 2,415 | 19,800 | -19.4% |
| #24 | University of Amsterdam | The Netherlands | 50.8 | 1,996 | 64,708 | 1.4% |
| #25 | University of the Witwatersrand | South Africa | 49.8 | 1,917 | 30,919 | -17.3% |
| #26 | University of Freiburg | Germany | 49.6 | 1,394 | 39,835 | 29.8% |
| #27 | Monash University | Australia | 49.3 | 1,776 | 91,042 | -16.0% |
| #28 | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz | Germany | 49.3 | 1,569 | 34,595 | 2.7% |
| #29 | University of Tübingen | Germany | 48.9 | 1,601 | 38,123 | -10.0% |
| #30 | George Washington University | United States | 48.9 | 1,651 | 28,601 | -15.2% |
| #31 | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom | 48.9 | 1,540 | 52,705 | -4.1% |
| #32 | University of Basel | Switzerland | 48.3 | 1,550 | 31,842 | -18.5% |
| #33 | Nanjing Medical University | China | 47.8 | 1,532 | 52,873 | -30.3% |
| #34 | University of Iowa | United States | 47.6 | 1,317 | 33,333 | -10.8% |
| #35 | University of Genoa | Italy | 47.4 | 1,192 | 28,169 | 0.3% |
How to interpret this field page
Field classifications are inferred from the scholarly works associated with institutions in OpenAlex. An institution can therefore appear strongly in several fields at once, and topic classifications may evolve as the scholarly graph is updated. ITS Research Solution does not infer a faculty or department simply from the existence of a topic signal.
Why every database record does not become an SEO page
ITS Research Solution only indexes pages when the underlying data is rich enough to support useful comparison and interpretation. Registry-only records, short research histories, missing topics and low-completeness profiles stay in the database but remain outside the public sitemap. This prevents repetitive, thin institution and subject pages.